Packeteer is blending the functions of two of its WAN-acceleration devices into a single box, making it possible for users to address network problems that may be slowing site-to-site performance ...

Businesses should expect to face a wide and confusing array of choices when seeking the right WAN-acceleration gear to make transaction times tolerable as they shift from branch office servers to ...

Software that speeds up transmission in a wide area network. Various techniques are used including compression and the application of quality of service (QoS) parameters to packets. If an application ...

Akamai's announcement this week of much broader acceleration benefits-- to all IP applications, including VOIP -- extends its WAN optimization capabilities into enterprises and out to remote users.

Expand's portfolio of Accelerator appliances uses data-compression algorithms to boost WAN capacity without requiring bandwidth increases. The vendor's new ...

Silver Peak has launched what it claimed is the biggest WAN accelerator ever — a box able to optimize, de-duplicate, compress, and encrypt 1Gbps of WAN traffic. Called the NX-9000, it’s also the first ...

Compared to native, non-optimized WAN links, the acceleration RiOS 6 provides is enormous. Below are test results of CIFS file transfers, an Excel open-copy-save as-open process, MAPI, and FTP across ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Expand Networks Inc., a supplier of application acceleration solutions over the wide area network (WAN), has secured $8.5 million of funding. The funding was led by Intel Capital ...

Glen Dalgleish, vice president of infrastructure services at global perfumer Coty Inc., well remembers why he and his staff had implemented WAN acceleration technology last January: to improve ...

Hello Ars, <BR><BR>We will be opening up a second office pretty soon in the West Coast (we're on the East) and have ordered a 10meg MPLS link between the two offices. We're a medium sized design firm ...

WAFS products support the efficient exchange of data between remote locations over a WAN, allowing remote offices to access data from a data center as if it were local. WAFS can typically support a ...

Microsoft Corp. and Packeteer Inc. last week jointly announced a branch office appliance designed to provide WAN throughput optimization capabilities in tandem with native Windows applications. With ...